[OSM-dev] 'My first OSM experiences' - PDA Mapping software and the OSM mobile binary protocol

[Karl Newman]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:34 PM, <marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:26:18 +0000, "Thomas Wood"
> <grand.edgemaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2009/1/6 Oliver Ford <osm at oliford.co.uk>:
> >> marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com wrote:
> >>> I added some clarifications to the wiki-page
> >>> on the Osmbin-format. (What it is intended for,
> >>> what the status is and that it is not related
> >>> to this "osm mobile binary protocoll".)
> >>>
> >>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMbin(file_format)<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMbin%28file_format%29>
> > Binary data formats has been thrashed over several times, often with
> > different outcomes (as the number of proposed formats/protocols etc
> > show).
> >
> > However, I'm pretty sure that your code would be welcomed by many in svn
> :)
>
> I've talked with Brett yesterday about integrating support for
> OSMbin into osmosis. I'll write that code in the next weeks.
> One day at a time. ;)
>
> Marcus
>

Heh, I was thinking along those lines, too, but I thought I'd wait until
your format stabilizes. It would be quite handy to have a random-access data
source for Osmosis without requiring a database installation.

Karl
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